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In December 1980, Virginia Epsilon Ellen Showen Standish offered a young woman in her apartment complex a ride to the Virginia Tech University campus. The young woman saw Ellen’s car sticker and asked, “Are you a Pi Phi?” As a … Read More

Joining Pi Phi at the University of Florida, Florida Delta Georgia Malpartida admits she did it for immediate selfish reasons: friends, fun and a place to live near campus. But through her current involvements in the Fraternity, she realizes Pi … Read More

Indiana Gamma Carla Hoagland Schuyler is from Hillsboro, Indiana, which she lovingly describes is a town of 600 happy people. There is no exit on the interstate to get there, you have to take the side roads, but you pass … Read More

I don’t know how many of you have spent time in Jackson, Mississippi, but I highly recommend it! The weather is great and the area is beautiful. It is rich with culture — writers like Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, and … Read More

When Virginia Theta Kelly Lane began applying to college, she made a promise to herself, “I will never submit to the limits others place upon me, but rather choose to live in the world full of infinite possibilities.” We spent … Read More

She remembers walking in to the Chicago hotel’s lobby to see a cake that seemed to touch the ceiling. It was 1967 and the centennial convention for Pi Beta Phi Fraternity; the first convention for Mississippi Alpha Kathryn Lewis. It … Read More

Canopies of oak trees with Spanish moss hanging down line the streets and there are early signs of pink azaleas beginning to bloom. It’s a beautiful, breezy February day in Mobile, Alabama, and I have the pleasure of joining Alabama … Read More